Working Group Annual Meeting Ulysses S. Seal Award Summaries Page 3 Participants Page 12 Page 14 Proceedings of the 2017 CPSG Annual Meeting 12-15 October 2017 ♦ Berlin, Germany The Conservation Planning Specialist Group (CPSG) held its 38th Annual Meeting (the first with our new name and expanded mandate) in Berlin, Germany, graciously hosted by Zoo Berlin. Over 100 conservation professionals from 29 countries gathered to discuss how to scale up species conservation planning within the IUCN SSC and beyond. We were delighted to have IUCN SSC Chair Jon Paul Rodríguez as our keynote speaker. Jon Paul is committed to increasing planning within the SSC to catalyze more conservation action. He spoke passionately about the SSC’s Assess-Plan-Act framework and the essential role of CPSG as the species planning lead for the Commission. We were honored to have a number of plenary speakers including Tara Martin (University of British Columbia), Brad • Richard Jenkins (Chameleon Specialist Group) Andrews (Global Conservation Associates), Richard Young • Richard Young (Small Mammal Specialist Group, Species (Durrell Wildlife Conservation Trust), and Pham Tuan Anh (Viet Monitoring Specialist Group) Nature Conservation Centre). • Alexandra Zimmermann (IUCN SSC Task Force on The highlight this year was the active, collaborative, and Human-Wildlife Conflict) extremely valuable participation of a number of Chairs, Co-Chairs, and representatives of our fellow Specialist For three days, participants enthusiastically explored, in Groups: working groups, topics focused on the theme including prioritizing species for conservation planning, building • Anne Baker (Amphibian Specialist Group) species conservation planning capacity, human-wildlife • Andre Botha (Vulture Specialist Group) conflict, using data science for the One Plan Approach, • Mark Bushell (Invertebrate Specialist Group) and new training for the Species Conservation Toolkit • Simon Dowell (Galliformes Specialist Group) Initiative. • Nicole Duplaix (Otter Specialist Group) • Richard Emslie (African Rhino Specialist Group) Summary reports of the working groups, along with • Rosalind Kennerley (Small Mammal Specialist Group) links to the full reports, are available on the following • Tara Martin (Climate Change Specialist Group) pages. • Christoph Schwitzer (Primate Specialist Group) Continued on next page.............. CPSG Annual Meeting 2017 1 Berlin, Germany On the final evening, CSPG Chair Onnie Byers presented Jeremy Mallinson with the Ulysses S Seal Award for Innovation in Conservation. The award recognizes his 42 years of association with Jersey Zoo and Durrell Wildlife Contents Trust, and his dedication to innovative and collaborative science-based conservation. Working Group Reports: Human-Wildlife Conflict....................................3 Prioritizing Species for Conservation CPSG thanks Zoo Berlin, Dr. Andreas Knieriem, and Planning.......................................................4 Sandra Bekel for the amazing hospitality we received Global Conservation Key throughout the 2017 CPSG Annual Meeting. We also Performance Indicators ............................. 5 thank all of the participants whose energy, expertise, and Capacity Building within the SSC ....................6 dedication to species conservation planning made this Getting the Most Out of ICAP...........................7 meeting a great success and give us hope for the future of Multi-Species Planning.... .............................. 8 wildlife. Data Science for the One Plan Approach........9 Species Conservation Toolkit Initiative...........10 Global Target of Halting Extinction..................11 Participant List...............................................12 Ulysses S Seal Award....................................14 GCN Donors...................................................15 CPSG Annual Meeting 2017 2 Berlin, Germany Working Group Summary Human-Wildlife Conflict (or how to integrate the human element in conservation planning) Participants Brad Andrews, Graham Banes, Yara Barros, Andre Botha, Jamie Copsey, Mark Craig, Nicole Duplaix, Richard Emslie, Katia Ferraz (convenor), Myfanwy Griffith, Heribert Hofer, Lionel Jouvet, Chung-Hao Juan, Petra Kretzschmar, Bob Lacy, Esther Manansang, Silvio Marchini (convenor), Anna Mekarska, Dwijendra Singh, Kerryn Morrison, Sanjay Molur, Roopali Raghavaw, Lee Simmons, Patrick Thomas, Alexandra Zimmermann (convenor) Summary Conflicts over wildlife management are increasing worldwide and threaten both conservation objectives and people’s livelihoods. Such conflicts have important implications for conservation planning.Three fundamental barriers have prevented the incorporation of human-wildlife conflict (HWC) into conservation planning: 1) confusion about the definition of HWC, 2) challenging assessment of HWC, due to a variety of factors including the lack of social science capacity among conservationists, and 3) relatively small amount of social/behavioral data. The goal of this working group was to evaluate a workshop process intended to extract and organize HWC information useful for planning, when data availability and knowledge among workshop participants are both limited. The process we went through was to tackle the complexity of human-wildlife conflict by deconstructing it, and then re-assembling it again.The results provide valuable insights on how to improve the process, including facilitation and the questions asked, as well as on areas for capacity building. Key Actions/Next Steps 1. Improve the Human-Wildlife Conflict assessment workshop process. 2. Expand the scope of the workshop to include the next step of the planning process: action decision-making. 3. Explore with CPSG staff the links between HWC assessment (and more broadly, social/behavioral science input) and other analytical components of the planning process (e.g. spatial modeling, PVA), as well as with PHVA workshops. Click for full working group report. CPSG Annual Meeting 2017 3 Berlin, Germany Working Group Summary Prioritizing Species for Conservation Planning Participants Onnie Byers, Joel Callicrate, Taylor Callicrate, Luis Carrillo, Peter Clark, Dalia Conde, Jo Gipps, Rachel Hoffmann, Volker Homes, Hidemasa Hori, Nian-Hong Jang-Liaw, Richard Jenkins, Mike Jordan, Lisa Kelley, Caroline Lees (convenor), Sonja Luz, Louise Mair, Phil McGowan, Phil Miller (convenor), Eric Miller, Andrew Mooney, Kirsten Pullen, Etsuo Narushima, Jorge Rodríguez, Oliver Ryder, Shu Sakata, Anke Schirmer, Ana Rita Silva, Boripat Siriaroonrat Summary The working group was designed to explore the need for, and potential solutions to, prioritizing species for conservation action planning, within the SSC and beyond. The intended focus of this workshop was to discuss the prioritization of species for conservation action planning. Resources are finite and so as the IUCN SSC CPSG moves forward with an expanded remit decisions will need to be made about which species are planned for, or which are planned for first. The workshop confined its attention to thinking about how we might prioritize species for entry into the planning process. It did not direct attention to other areas of prioritization, such as prioritizing actions or projects. Potential “tools” considered were: 1) IUCN Guidelines on Prioritization – to help users to custom-build prioritization schemes. Given the inherent similarities, this document could cover not only prioritizing species for entry into an action planning process but also the prioritization of actions and projects; and 2) An ‘Expert Species Prioritization System’, capable of drawing on data captured in other, existing systems (e.g. AArk CNA, ASAP, AZE, EDGE, MAPISCo) and able to be queried in a variety of ways. The system would enable users to select a group of species (e.g. all species within a Specialist Group, Protected Area, or zoo) and score and filter them according to a user-selected subset of pre-developed prioritization criteria. Key Actions/Next Steps 1. A group of participants agreed to continue discussions post-conference. Click for full working group report. CPSG Annual Meeting 2017 4 Berlin, Germany Working Group Summary Global Conservation Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) Participants Yara Barros, Andre Botha, Luis Carrillo, Lesley Dickie (convenor), Simon Dowell, Nicole Duplaix, Myfanwy Griffith, Heribert Hofer (convenor), Volker Homes, Richard Jakob-Hoff, Chung-Hao Juan, Christian Kern, Sonja Luz, Phil McGowan, Eric Miller, Kirsten Pullen, Roopali Raghavan, Anke Schirmer (convenor), Christoph Schwitzer, Ana Rita Silva, Lee Simmons, Pat Thomas, Richard Young (convenor), Martín Zordan Summary This working group examined the purposes of institutional and global conservation KPIs in the light of the experience of: 1) the institutional KPI-based Durrell Index [Young et al. 2014; https://www.durrell.org/wildlife/wildlife/durrell-index/ex- plore/]; and 2) the global KPI-based assessment of the Saving from Extinction Project, using data from existing biodiversity information systems and conservation databases. Presentations by Richard Young and Anke Schirmer outlined the science and design of the two assessments and key results, as well as the challenges faced in its creation and ongoing management. Following the two case studies, the entire group discussed the challenges of compiling institutional and global KPIs and identified useful approaches/standards already existing and resources/tools needed by zoos and aquaria in their operationalization. Key Actions/Next Steps